Singapore Start-up Sees Gold Mine In Foreign Language TV

By

Sam Holmes

Oct 21, 2011 SGT

Viki.com

Singapore has long struggled to incubate a home-grown Silicon Valley-style startup scene. But at least one new Internet outfit in the city-state has succeeded in attracting a lot of eyeballs – and some venture capital, too.

Called Viki, the Singapore-based web startup pools the linguistic talents of thousands of its users to help push world television content into markets historically impenetrable to all but a handful of foreign-language productions.